Disclaimer: "I despise having to repeat the same thing over again" –Shino
Author's note (PLEASE READ FIRST):
(A door opens. Author sticks out her head.) ME (whispering): is the coast cl- READERS: THERE SHE IS!! GET HER!! (Knives, blades, kunais, shurikens, ballpens, pencils and every other sharp object you could think of was thrown towards the door. Whew, I survived…) ME: WAIT! WAIT, PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF-
READERS: wait? WAIT? WAAAIIIT?!?!?!? WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU FOR ALMOST ONE YEAR!! WHY THE HECK SHOULD WE WAIT SOME MORE?!
ME: because, since you are all under the power of this fanfic, I have the power to do… this. (Turns everyone into snails)
READER # 29384729847: oh crap… she's right.
READER # 23984790378172: this is way uncool… if my girlfriend finds out I was-
READER # 23984790378173: sweetie, I'm over here.
READER # 23984790378172: oh. (Blinks his snail eyes and makes loving snail noises… is there such a thing?) …Wait, you're not my girlfriend…
READER # 239847093875894575: HOW THE HECK SHOULD YOU KNOW?! EVERYONE LOOKS THE SAME!!
ME: alright, guys, don't you wanna know why I left my fanfic to collect dust after all this time? (Cricket noises) oookkaaayyy, you don't. But I'll tell it anyway. Simple: we had a lot going on, this dumb family problem landed on us, I got a –believe it or NOT– A FULL 5 MONTHS' worth of writer's block, became a crazed fan of shaman king… STILL AM a crazed fan of shaman king… (Go Ren!) Our computer's hard drive went berserk, dad replaced it with a new hard drive, searched for the old hard drive containing this document, found the hard drive in a computer shop, found this document, downloaded it to a diskette, inserted the diskette to the computer, the crappy piece of fucking diskette shit was broken, had to go BACK to the computer shop to paste the document in my email under 'drafts', went home, tried to copy the document in our computer, sent the document to my own email address, copied the document on to windows word, put the ending, and downloaded it to fanfiction, where my readers are now reading this author's note instead of skipping off to the story!
Readers: …
ME: well?
READERS: JUST GET ON WITH THE FREAKIN' STORY!
ME: oh, right, well, here it is… enjoy…
Anyway, enjoy the story!
CHAPTER X: SHIT! (Shikaino operation PART II!)
DDDRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNGGGGG…
The bell signaled for the end of the school day. Students rushed out hurriedly to their houses, or, for the case of some girls, the nearest mall. When Gerty passed Ino, Ino smiled with satisfaction at her, and dusted off a clod of invisible dust from her new, lavender skirt. Gerty growled angrily, and with a smug 'hmph!' she led her dog- uhm, friends, out into the afternoon sun. Ino turned around and smiled as she saw her best friends walking towards her, aliens in head, bags on shoulders, and smiles on faces. The aliens were currently chatting about their masters and were very noisy, so Sakura, Hinata and Ten-ten stuffed each mouth with a handful of coco puffs – the all-time alien quieter.
"Do you want us to wait for you?" Sakura asked as she put her books into her locker on the other side, opposite Ino.
"Yeah, to help you out with the alien hunting." Hinata said quietly, a sincere smile on her porcelain face. Ten-ten chuckled.
"You mean to save Shikamaru from Ino's wrath if she goes on rampage… hehehehe-OUCH!" Ten-ten groaned as a book flew her way and hit her head. "HEY! WHO THREW THAT?!" she asked angrily.
"Wasn't me…" Ino said quietly, whistling and looking at the other direction. Ten-ten narrowed her eyes at Ino and stared at the book that hit her.
"1001 ways to snag that hottie…" Ten-ten read quietly. Gotcha. She looked into her locker and found the perfect book. She grinned, and threw it on top of Ino's head. While trying to be as conspicuous as possible. This wasn't that effective, seeing as everyone on the hallway except Ino saw her.
"Ouch!" Ino moaned, rubbing the sore bump on her blonde head.
"Whistle, whistle, whistle…" Ten-ten said, looking away.
"Ten-ten, did you just SAY 'whistle, whistle, whistle'?!" Sakura said. Ten-ten sweatdropped and started organizing her already neat and organized locker.
"1002 ways to voodoo the person who threw that nasty book at you." Ino read. A sudden dark, evil aura or presence started looming over the three of them, enveloping them in a sea of sick smoke…
"TEN-TEN, DID YOU JUST FART?!" Sakura shrieked. Ten-ten double sweatdropped and did the whole, cool, macho thing.
She said this:
"…"
Ino stared at the book in her hand and her eyes traveled over to the brown-haired teen who was now silently chuckling to herself evilly.
"heeheeheeheeheeheehee…" she cackled silently
"u-uhm… Ten-ten-san??" Hinata asked quietly, her soft, dull silver eyes looking like small saucers. Ten-ten's persistent evil cackling continued, this time, louder.
"HIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHI!!!!!!!!!!!"
"…Ten-ten…" Sakura whispered, sweatdropping as people started staring their way, raising suspicious eyebrows. "…Ten-ten, for the love of God, shut up…"
"HIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIH (a month later…) HIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIIIIIIIII!" she finished, and then let out a woosh of air. "Whew, was that a good laugh…" she said happily. She then looked around to find that her friends were turned into stone statues, complete with pigeons and pigeon poop all over them, their eyes "O.o". Other than that, a large crowd composed of almost, no, ALL of the students in Konoha High (minus the chick-catchers, that is, and a few… I mean, a LOT of their fan girls) were all staring at her and her 'stone-cold' friends. She glared at them.
"WANT KUNAIS UP YOURS?!" she shouted angrily. At this, her stone friends turned into metal, and everyone left.
Ino gulped.
"Uh… hey, Ten-ten, wanna grab a bite tomorrow? My treat…?" she said in a VERY tiny voice.
"…sure…" Ten-ten mumbled. Her eyes becoming red and beady. Sweat beads started falling from Ino's head.
"Phew…" Ino said, wiping her head with a handkerchief.
"What did you say?" Ten-ten asked, her eyes glaring. Ino's eyes twitched.
"Uh… uhm… no-nothing! Absolutely nothing!!"
"Good." Ten-ten whispered menacingly.
Sakura and Hinata cowered behind Ino, who was shaking as if they were in front of Satan himself.
Sakura grabbed her backpack and re-tied her shoelaces. She looked at Ino.
"Don't worry, it's just for a day," she reassured Ino, smiling at her.
"One irritatingly idiotic day…" Ino mumbled, leaning on her locker and crossing her arms. Sakura and Hinata laughed. Ten-ten finally chuckled, almost normal.
"We'll treat you tomorrow to that blouse you wanted. Does that lift up your lonely spirit?" Sakura asked. Ino grinned at her.
"What lonely spirit?" Ino asked. They all chuckled.
"Okay, gotta go. Got me some aliens to disintegrate!" Ino said, grabbing a laser bazooka from her locker. She put on shades and said in her deepest and most manly voice (that sounded uncannily like Arnold Schwarzenegger's):
"Astalavista aliens…" Sakura and the others started sweating like crazy… scary Ino…
"Okay then, bye guys!" Ino said cheerfully, waving at her best friends. Sakura sweatdropped as she walked out of the building. 'And I thought I had major mood swings…' she thought, sighing.
"No, really, guys! WHAT LONELY SPIRIT?!" Ino called after them. The three of them sweatdropped. As they walked towards the gate, a guy with pineapple-like hair came into view.
"Shikamaru!" Sakura called.
Ino looked at Konni, her pet alien. She was currently snoring in her locker, spreading alien saliva over her C- test papers. 'Wait a minute? WAS THAT AN F?!' Ino stared unblinkingly at the test paper. She leaned over to get a better look. Oh, it was just alien saliva over THE ONLY "A" she ever got. She gently tapped little Konni on the head. The alien blinked, and stretched its wings AT ITS BREAKING POINT, meaning all 23 lockers on either side of Ino's locker was destroyed. So, that means, 47 lockers were in locker heaven. Do the math… it included Ino's locker as well. Ino gaped at the rubble and metal spread on the school's flooring.
'Oh boy… the janitor's gonna have a fit…' Ino thought. She looked back at her alien who merely blinked, then stared at the giant mess as if all of it were spelling out in big bold letters: THIS WAS MADE DUE TO THE IDIOCY OF YAMANAKA INO AND HER ALIEN WHATSITSNAME. Ino blinked. 'No; scratch that. The janitor's gonna have a seizure, a heart attack, and then go straight on to coma…' Suddenly, from across the hall…
"SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!"
Ino looked around and gasped. (Activate thriller sound effects) the shiny 'you-can-see-your-face' shoes… the neatly combed hair ('At least… what's LEFT of his hair…' Ino thought.) … The super-ironed uniform, so straight the body itself was rigid… the spotless I.D. and the most dreaded weapon of all: the white mop.
It could only be… (Louder thriller sound effects. Woman shrieking)
"T-the j-janitor…" Ino whispered.
"IT'S CLEANING MAN! NOT JANITOR!" the janitor hollered angrily, spit flying everywhere. It was like being sprayed with a fresh scented mist…
Eiw…
"Weeelll, well, well… lookie what we have here…" The Janitor continued in his western accent. Ino gulped. Konni flew out of Ino's locker, and nestled itself neatly on top of Ino's shiny blond head, unaware of the saliva-drooling, fang-bearing, not to mention Gollum-looking man in front of Ino.
"Weelll?" the janitor asked.
"Uhm… well, you see…" she replied, chuckling nervously.
"It was an accident. Duh." Said a bored voice. The janitor looked up. Ino turned her head around, her hair flying off for effect. 'There's a new savior!' she thought, 'and he's going to be handsome, and gorgeous, with his muscles tightly etched on his white t-shirt…' She could see it now… his fist would knock out the evil janitor-man, and she would be safe in his strong manly arms… Ino blinked.
Oh my-
Ino's eyes widened. Thank God no one has the ability to read thoughts… she thought, for there in the hallway was her so-called savior…
Shikamaru.
Yep.
Deer-man.
Suddenly, a guy in a suit entered the hallway, his cameramen around him with their very own –gasp! What's this?!– cameras!! (Didn't see that one coming…)He faced one camera up-close, and gave a LARGE and not to mention very white-toothed smile. A mob of people came afterwards, bringing their own seats. One man with silver-white hair had a beard that reached the floor wearing magnificent midnight-blue robes and sporting a pointy wizard's hat conjured a squishy chintz armchair out of nowhere. Hmm… familiar scene…
"YES! Hello, ladies, gentlemen, janitors-"
"IT'S CLEANING MAN, DAMNIT!"
"Uh… right." The guy said lazily, and turned to face the camera with his big smile. "Hello again, ladies and gentlemen (he avoided the janitor), I am your host, Rob – Bob's brother, and welcome to… THE INTERFERING SHOW!" claps and cheers from the audience. He winked at the audience and a woman swooned and fainted.
"Ehem. Today, we will be featuring a battle between two challengers- Mop-man and deer-man!!" the audience cheered behind him. Then someone said…
"I LOVE YOU MOP-MAN!!!"
The janitor suddenly turned his back to the audience and started blushing and shyly straightening his already starched-too-much pants.
"Aw… shucks, don't DO that!" he squealed in a disturbingly girl voice (the kind that makes guys knees go weak) and tucking a strand of white hair behind his ear. 'Oh, barf…' Shikamaru thought. 'I mean… the voice… and HIS face?! Oh, GOD, I need a barf bag…' he made a slight retching sound, but held it in. He looked at the wrinkled, oily, pimpled, and dark-spotted face with a few hairs on it, and Shikamaru laid Ino gently on the nearest chair and barfed in the boys' comfort room. He returned three seconds later, spritzing his mouth with a whole can of mint spray, and cradling Ino's body once more.
Rob looked at the crowd and blinked. He turned back to the cameras and flashed his reporter-like smile. "Uh… okay! For the prize, the winner will get one comatosed Yamanaka Ino, and another prize of his choice! A stuffed deer or a new white mop! And that's not all! We will also include one specially designed scientific, mathematic, exquisite, exotic, prehistoric, extinct, super-riffic, atomic, special-riffic, cutatomic (pronounce it as cute-tatomic), beautifulific, ultrasonic, radiatic, invisible… (Drum roll) ANT!" the audience 'ooohed'. Shikamaru sweatdropped while mop- I mean the jani- uh… I mean THE CLEANING MAN drooled in front of the shiny, oak-handled mop. Shikamaru sighed. He stared at Ino who was lying on the ground, twitching, and drool flowing from her mouth like a waterfall. Konni was asleep… yet again.
"Alright, everyone, places on the battlefield…" Rob said.
"This is a pretty crummy battlefield." Shikamaru muttered.
"Make-up!"
"Do we need make-up when we fight?"
"Where's the blush-on?!"
"I'm allergic to that stuff."
"Eyeliner please."
"What do I look like? A GIRL?"
"The pink bra's missing from Shikamaru's wardrobe!"
"DAMMIT, I'M MALE!"
"Will someone bring me a tootsie roll?"
"A WHAT?"
"Alright, lights… camera… action!"
"Isn't the whole point of fighting, fighting without scripts?" Shikamaru asked quietly.
"I LOST MY CONDOM!!"
Silence echoed in the hallway, and everyone turned to look at where the voice came from. It wasn't hard to find really; the person was standing up.
"Sasuke?"
"Oh, hey Shikamaru."
"Dude… do you have any idea about what you said?"
"Uh, yeah. I said I lost my condom. Did you see it?"
"Fuck, dude, do you KNOW what you're saying?!" Shikamaru said angrily. Sasuke glowered at him.
"Fine, grammar boy, HAVE you seen it?" Sasuke said.
"OUT, SASUKE! YOU DON'T HAVE A FRICKIN' CONDOM!! YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO USE ONE!!" Shikamaru shouted.
"THAT'S WHAT YOU KNOW!" Sasuke said, emo-tears falling from his eyes. "What makes you so sure I can't?! as if you do!"
"OF COURSE I DO!"
Silence. Silence. Silence. The whole crowed looked at Shikamaru who wasn't even blushing. Even Ino suddenly woke up from comatose and stared at him, her cheeks slightly, no, VERY pink. Shika sighed.
"IQ of 200??" Shika asked. "Ring any bells??"
Silence. Silence. Silence.
"I'm not a virgin." Shikamaru said flatly, a tone full of sarcasm, that, obviously, no one noticed.
Everyone else sighed and started talking to themselves.
"Oh, okay."
"WHEW! I thought he did something like… y'know… buy it and READ THE INSTRUCTIONS!"
"It's a good thing he just had sex… I thought it was something serious or whatever…"
Shika's eyes went O.o
"Oh, good! I thought it was something else…" Sasuke said, coming down from the audience and clapping Shika on the back.
"Like WHAT?!" Shikamaru said his eyes O.O and his voice tight, high-pitched and exasperated.
"Like the other guy said… y'know… buying it and…" Sasuke shuddered. "READING the instructions…"
O.o; O.o; O.o
"Bye, 'cuz…"
X.x; X.x; X.x
"Coffee break!"
"We haven't even started…" Shika muttered.
"Okay, lights! Camera! ACTION!!!"
"AGAIN: isn't the whole point of fighting, fighting without scripts?!?!?!"
"THAT'S IT!!" Rob shouted. Shikamaru looked lazily at him.
"What's your problem?"
"YOU! WHY DO ACTORS HAVE TO BE SO IRRITATING?!" he shouted. Shikamaru sweatdropped.
"First of all, I'm not an actor, I'm a ninja. Second of all, YOU'RE more irritating than I am."
"How DARE you!" Rob gasped dramatically. The audience behind him glared at deer- oops I mean Shikamaru.
"I'm sooo dared…" Shikamaru said lazily.
"ALWAYS SAYING, 'I WANT THIS, I WANT THAT-' WHY CAN'T ACTORS BE MORE SATISFIED WITH WHAT THEY WANT?!"
"I don't want–" Shikamaru started, but Rob cut him off.
"SEE?! SEE WHAT I MEAN?! HE'S EEVILL I TELL YOU!!! HE'S EEEEEEEEVVV-" Rob's eyes widened in shock as a red jet of light hit him squarely behind the back. He fell unto the floor, and started… well… he started making his 'dying' speech.
"I… see… white light (cough, cough)…" Rob said dramatically. The woman he winked at earlier had just gotten up from her faint, and, seeing Rob's 'dying' body, she fainted yet again. "…oh… cruel… world… (Cough, cough) why… do the good ones… always… have to be… the first (cough) to go? (Cough)" he lay back on the ground, and stuck his tongue out at the side. Shikamaru sweatdropped. He looked up to find the old man sitting on the chintz chair happily chuckling to him. Shikamaru went closer, carrying Ino, and faced the old man.
"Dude…" Shikamaru started. He twitched when he saw that the man was eating what seemed to be a moving frog. A moving, chocolate frog.
"Ah… yes?" the old man replied, peering at him from his half-moon spectacles on his doubly crooked nose, and swallowing a twitching frog's right leg. He burped. "Oh, excuse me…" he said politely.
"What's your name?" Shikamaru asked, watching the man get a small, pentagon-shaped cardboard box, and pulling out a card. He chuckled, put the card in a small card pile on his right side, and took out, yet again, another moving chocolate frog. The old man bit the head and chewed happily in satisfaction. Shikamaru twitched, yet again.
"Ah… it is a very long name," the old man said, now reaching for what looked like a bottle filled with blood red wine.
"I don't mind…" Shikamaru muttered, watching the man drain the glass. The man gave another burp, and another timid, "Excuse me… again…"
"Albus. Albus Dumbledore."
"That wasn't a very long name…"
"Ah, ('this guy likes to say the word 'ah' all the time…' Shikamaru thought to himself) you see, my real name is Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore."
Shikamaru let out a long, low, wolf whistle. He stared at Rob, who was still lying unconscious on the floor.
"As much as I think you did the greatest thing on earth…" Shikamaru started.
"Ah… (Shikamaru sweatdropped) Thank you…" Albus Dumbledore said.
"Well, I can't help but think that you should move him to another place or something…"
"Ah… (Shikamaru sweatdropped yet again) that is fairly easy…" he pulled out a long, thin, wooden wand and gave it a swish and a flick. Dumbledore muttered, "Locomotor idiot man" and Rob's unconscious body floated for a few inches. Dumbledore swished his wand to the left, pointing to the window (BTW, people, they were on the 10th floor…) and, yep, rob flew out the window. Buh-bye! Shikamaru chuckled, and then looked at the time.
"OH MY GOD!!!" he shouted, and brought his hands up to his cheeks, and, in the process of doing so, dropped Ino.
"OUCH! Shika-BAKA!" Ino took her laser bazooka and blasted Shikamaru to nothingness.
"MWAHAHAHHAHAHAAAA!!! I'M EEEEVIIILL I TELL YOU!!!!!!! EEEVVVIIILLLLLLLLL!!!!" she laughed maniacally. "MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (drinks a glass of water) AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH (after 5 days) AHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!!" Ino laughed triumphantly. She turned around. Shikamaru was making tea.
"You done?"
Ino gaped at him.
"I'll take that as a yes…" he muttered. "C'mon, let's catch some dumb aliens."
"Sure!" Ino said, adjusting Konni on her blonde head. Konni flapped excitedly. "That's a cinch!"
Narrator of Spongebob Squarepants: two hours later…
"I CAN'T TAKE THIS ANYMOOOORRREEE!!!!!"
Guess whose voice said that…
"Calm down, just a few more… sheesh, what a baby…"
If you guessed it came from a certain blond named Yamanaka Ino…
You were WRONG.
DEAD wrong.
"Shikamaru…"
"I Can't TAKE THIS ANYMORE!!! I'VE NEVER BEEN THIS LONG AWAY FROM MY BELOVED STUFFED DEERS! WHO'S GONNA TAKE CARE OF NIKI-CHAN? WHO'S FEEDING SHIKINO-KUN? WHO'S PUTTING MARU-NARU-SAN TO SLEEP? WHO? WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO?!??!?!"
"Shikamaru… it's okay. We're done."
"Ah, thank goodness…"
"Sure. You go home." Ino said uncaringly, grabbing a slime-stained Konni who was happily chatting how fun alien catching was. Shikamaru looked at Ino.
"What about you?"
"I'm gonna take a bath here, in one of the school showers. Duh!" Ino told him, rolling her eyes. "Do you expect me to do my night shopping this filthy? Uh, I DON'T THINK SO!!" she chuckled good-naturedly and smiled at Shikamaru.
Shikamaru's black eyes looked at Ino's cerulean ones. Everything disappeared; everything vanished. It was like there was suddenly some understanding between them, and all thoughts were put away. They only came back to earth when Konni screamed.
"I WANT COCO PUFFSSSS!!!!!!!!!!"
"Okay, you little monster, but AFTER our hot bath…" Ino said motherly, and taking off Konni from her head. They were giggling happily to the bathroom when Shikamaru spoke up.
"Can… can I wait?"
Silence filled the whole school. (Readers sweatdrop. Author: Well, duh! They were the only ones left there, and they weren't talking and stuff…) Ino's eyes widened, and she nearly dropped Konni. She didn't dare turn around to face Shikamaru, because she felt her face burn a bright red. Shikamaru seemed reluctant to face Ino either. He made to stare at his shoelaces… at least he didn't have to feel embarrassed when he stared at the white strings of cloth…
"For… what?"
"…"
No one dared to speak. Then…
"…You…"
Every muscle in Ino's body seemed immobile. Her knees were shaking violently, and her eyes widened a bit more. Konni looked at Ino, and broke the silence by saying…
"Ino?"
"…"
"Are you having a… seizure?"
Ino wanted to kiss Konni because of her idiocy. But she couldn't DARE give herself away, not with Shikamaru there. So she took to hitting Konni on the head instead.
"Ouch!"
"A seizure?!" Ino fake-growled angrily. "NO MORE COCO PUFFS FOR YOU!!!"
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"
"Ino…"
Ino shut up. "Yeah…?"
"So… can –should I wait for you?" Shikamaru muttered, turning around so that he could lift his head without looking at Ino. His neck was aching from all that time looking at the ground. He inwardly hit his head when he heard running footsteps away from him, echoing around the school. He was so lame…
"Sure."
The voice was an echo and quite faded that he thought that it was a figment of his imagination. He turned around, and saw a completely different-looking Ino. Sure, her hair was still tied in a high ponytail on her head, but… he saw her smile.
It was completely genuine, no smirk mixed in whatsoever.
"Sorry?"
"Are you deaf? I said sure…" Ino said, turning around immediately, and ran around the corner towards the bathrooms.
Shikamaru almost kissed his alien guardian, Kaski.
Sakura was sitting on her bed, combing her hair, and staring at the top of their school visible through the wide-glass doors leading to her balcony. Their daily night-shopping was due in an hour or so… Ino should be taking a bath or something by now. She had half a thought to go there, and check up on them. But Ino told them to wait for her in the Twilight Café at the mall. 'Oh well,' she thought, giggling happily to herself and walking away towards the mirror to put lip gloss. 'Shika's with her, she'll be safe.'
Ino sunk in, deeper into the warm water. Bubbles were on the surface. She let out a relaxing sigh. It was nice to have a bath after a hard day of capturing mutated aliens.
"Ooohhh…" Konni said, flapping her wings. "This feels really nice…"
"Told you you'd like it…" Ino muttered, smiling. Everything was silent except for the gentle swish of the water at Konni played with the bubbles using her wings. Ino closed her eyes and thought about what happened fifteen minutes ago.
Shika had asked to stay behind. Yet he heard him talking to his friends that he's supposed to go back to their condominium as early as possible after alien-hunting. Ino leaned back and swirled water with her finger. 'what's the catch?' she thought. 'Shika's not even the TYPE to make crappy catches like that. That's Sasuke's line of expertise…' she yawned. 'So what's going on?'
CRASH!!!!!
Ino shrieked.
Several yards away, Shikamaru had just finished his quick shower and had already dressed when he heard the crash and Ino's shriek.
"INO!" he yelled. He ran as fast as his legs would allow him, darting through corridors, and finally reaching the girls' bathroom. He didn't even think of anything else. There was just a mantra going around his head: Ino… crash… danger… Ino… crash… danger… it wouldn't stop. He grabbed the handle, and pushed the door open, with a VERY tiny voice screaming something along the lines of 'TABOO!' and '…I know there's something I need to do first…'
He stopped dead in his tracks, staring ahead of him, his pale cheeks slowly turning pink, and then, dark red.
Ino was halfway out of the tub, with a towel clutched in front of her, the rest of the towel almost JUST covering her. It wasn't wrapped around; rather, it was just held in front of her. her eyes and cheeks were in the same state as Shika's.
They stood staring at each other, eyes wide open, cheeks burning a hot red, their aliens looking pointedly away, and the bowl of coco puffs scattered on the floor.
It was Ino who recovered her voice first.
"KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"
AUTHOR'S NOTE:
So ends another chapter! I hope this one makes up for the really long time you guys had to wait for… I'm not expecting it to make up for the whole 1+ year, but, at least… I hope it SLIGHTLY makes up for it. I'll do better in the next chappie, which will be about what happened next, the mall shopping (maybe) and school the next day. Plus, I think I'll squeeze in a lil naruhina which will be the next guys who'll start alien hunting. Keep in mind that the pairings' alien catching and romance thingies will take 2 chapters each. After naruhina, the aftermath, then, the much awaited sasusaku. After that, another aftermath, in which I will probably squeeze in the much needed info you guys have been clamoring about the aliens.
That's all!!
Much love,
Kana28
P.S. this was a full 14 page on the Microsoft word, and THAT'S with the margins extended!! basically it's because of all the double spacing and the authors' note, but, well, I'm very proud of myself! I think it's my longest so far!!